Ford pledges kept stance on Korea troop levels in Seoul visit
President Ford arrives amid confetti and crowds in Seoul and pledges no reduction in the 38,000 US troops in South Korea. He and Park Chung Hee commit to mutual defense aid and discuss Park’s domestic repression, with Ford warning on domestic regard in the United States.
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South) Korea
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General Assembly
Korea
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Rockefeller nomination advances to full Senate for VP
Senate Rules Committee votes 9-0 to send Nelson Rockefeller's vice president nomination to the Senate. House Judiciary begins second day of hearings as Rockefeller pledges a blind trust for stock and avoids control of trust profits. Opposition cites conflict of interest concerns and wealth concentration.
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Venezuela
Skyjackers bargain for release of imprisoned PLO guerrillas
A Dubai hijack to Tunis by Arab terrorists threatens to kill hostages if Egypt does not free 13 Palestinian guerrillas. Eight accused killers of U S and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum are in Egyptian custody, while five linked to the Rome Pan Am attack are held by the PLO. The hijackers press Dutch and Tunisian authorities for releases as they await orders and warn of disaster.
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Senate Democrats push controls as inflation peaks at 12.2 percent
Senate Democrats urge new wage and price controls as inflation hits 12.2 percent, the highest since 1947. Ford cuts Pinto price by 150 dollars while auto layoffs total over 150,000. GM idles 30,000 workers and rail, steel, coke areas feel coal strike fallout.
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Hunt memo on cash and pardons sparks jury focus
The 1972 Hunt memo urged the Nixon White House to honor promises to Watergate burglars with cash and pardons. Read aloud at the conspiracy trial of five former Nixon aides, the three page note framed loyalty as a two way street and flagged risks if demands were ignored. The memo ties to White House tapes and Easter filings showing Nixon weighing clemency amid the cover up. The jurors heard the memo as prosecutors pressed the motive and stakes in the case.
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Dymally and Alatorre to Sponsor Doctor Shortage Bill
Sacramento reports Lt Gov Mervyn Dymally and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre will sponsor next month a measure to ease California's doctor shortage by expanding recruitment and training avenues for physicians.
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Sacramento
UPS
Mervyn Dymally
Richard Alatorre
California
Greyhound Studies Union Offer Amid Ongoing Nationwide Strike
Greyhound Bus Co officials study the union counteroffer as federal mediator Guy Parent stays hopeful for a quick settlement to the five day old strike that halted service coast to coast. Union leaders warn voting on the contract could take more than two weeks after an agreement is reached.
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UPI
Greyhound Bus Co
Guy Parent
Greyhound
Amalgamated Council of Greyhound
Continental
United States
Parent
Nation wide hunt for IRA after deadly Birmingham bombing
Scotland Yard ordered a nationwide manhunt for IRA extremists blamed for the deadliest bombing in Northern Ireland’s conflict era. In Birmingham two pubs, Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, killed 19 and wounded 184, as a second blast damaged a church grounds and a home window. Police raided Irish areas, urged tips, and warned of a car with plate 123WW. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins planned emergency legislation while rejecting outlawing the IRA or restoring the death penalty.
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England
UPI
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Irish Republican Army
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Ieland
Michael Wills
Sinn Fein
Midlands
London
Roy Jenkins
Britain
Mulberry
Coventry
James McDade
Cash stash from Armored Express theft found hidden under granny's floor
UPI reports about $2.2 million of the $4.3 million stolen in the Armored Express vault burglary being recovered from a basement hole beneath Dorothy Marrera's home. FBI Illinois authorities uncovered five Army duffel bags of cash after tearing up concrete and chicken wire securing the floor. The money was found in the grandmother of suspect Ralph Marrera's residence, with officials calling the recovery one of the largest in U.S. history.
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Ralph Marrera
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